The new book "The Rise of Great Powers 1900" seeks collection.

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In April, Sun Changfu and Zheng Yongwang returned to their division and were immediately sent to Hunan to fight.

Hong Chengchou has been beaten out of Hunan and retreated to Guizhou to join forces with Sun Kewang and Wu Sangui.

After the Qing court occupied Guizhou, it began to pass through Sichuan, and Hong Chengchou suggested that one million immigrants in Sichuan and Tuntian should raise troops.

Dolgon did it even more thoroughly, sending 10,000 families of Eight Banners here, letting them bring their own clothed minions, and telling them that the country of abundance had been encircled by them.

All of a sudden, the ambitions of the new generation of young people who grew up in the Eight Banners were satisfied, but China had one more province of slavery.

For Dolgon, these nobles of the Eight Banners were unwilling to pay taxes anyway, but they were insatiable about land.

Instead of letting them occupy the land that can pay taxes, it is better for them to take their own clothes and go to occupy Sichuan, and their family has to support them, contribute money and support, and leave the funds of the imperial court to turn this land into Manchu territory.

Yang Chao is very strange, this has been Longwu for seven years, Dolgon is not dead, he remembers that Dolgon died very early in history, it is said that he rode a horse to the grassland to hunt and suddenly died, maybe he fell off the horse and died, or he died of disease.

But it was obvious that he must have been in good health before hunting, otherwise it would not have been possible to go to the grassland to hunt, but in this time and space, Dolgon was pressed to death by Yang Chao in Beijing, and he did not have any time to go hunting in the grassland, but let him escape.

Yang Chao did not pin his hopes on such a thing as Dolgon's violent death, and the Northern Expedition had to depend on his own strength, and no one else could rely on him.

Needless to say, Sun Kewang has that kind of goods. Right now, it's the sinner that Yang Chao wants to get rid of. Even Li Dingguo can't be trusted.

After Li Dingguo returned to Yunnan. Summoning the old department, with a large amount of material assistance sent by Yang Chao, it quickly recovered.

Before Li Dingguo's Northern Expedition, he left tens of thousands of cronies in Yunnan, but he didn't expect that when Wu Sangui called, the emperor ran away, and the remaining army was affected. They all ran with the emperor, but Kunming was occupied, and these people also dispersed.

After Li Dingguo went back, he beat Wu Sangui away, and as soon as the banner was opened, these people came back again, with Yang Chao's material support, Li Dingguo could also afford to raise these people, and equipped everyone with iron armor and steel knives, which were even more gorgeous than in the past. In an instant, Li Dingguo had an elite army of 50,000.

Li Dingguo originally wanted to join forces with him to attack Guizhou, but as a result, Li Dingguo led his troops to Burma instead. bent on welcoming back Zhu Cihuan.

But it's a pity that the king of Burma refused to let go, Li Dingguo laid down several checkpoints in Myanmar, and the king of Burma asked the emperor to issue an edict to rebuke Li Dingguo, knowing that this holy decree was written under the coercion of the king of Burma, but Li Dingguo did not dare to disobey, not that he was pedantic, but that he knew that since the king of Burma could coerce the emperor, then he could also kill the emperor.

Under the trap of throwing rats, Li Dingguo could only return to Yunnan.

Yang Chao sold another 50 million taels of bonds this year, of course, he didn't sell them all at once, so that the withdrawal of too much currency in circulation would have a big impact on the economy, and he would sell them in batches, anyway, he just continued to buy materials, and he didn't need to get so much money all at once.

A well-functioning financial market has been formed, although it is still very crude, but it should be functional, and you can get the money you want here.

As for the government's debt to 100 million taels, this is not in Yang Chao's consideration, anyway, as long as there is no inflation in the market, then the input of money will stimulate the market, this year so far the newly opened shops reached 3 percent of the total number of shops is enough to illustrate the problem, indicating that the people's spending power is becoming more and more vigorous, otherwise it will not attract so many businessmen to open shops, but also show that businessmen do not lack capital, have the ability to expand on a large scale.

Any data is first, the economy of Jiangnan has entered a cycle of rapid development, as long as there are no major changes, such as the Qing army suddenly captured Nanjing, this development trend will not be interrupted, the more the economy develops, the more money is needed, because the production of materials has greatly increased, the corresponding money supply is needed to balance, not to mention inflation, Yang Chao even thinks that the Jiangnan region is not a little deflationary, because the price of food fell once again a little or two.

In addition to grain prices, iron prices have increased slightly, textiles have been on par with last year, and only food prices have fallen significantly.

After the investigation, it was found that it was the Mekong Delta that began to export grain to Jiangnan on a large scale last year.

Yang Chao is still very strange, although he has sent 300,000 prisoners to somewhere, but with the intensive cultivation of rice, the labor required is too large, and a strong laborer can only plant about ten acres, which is too much to bear.

Therefore, Yang Chao predicts that 300,000 people will reclaim 3 million mu of land, and Suzhou's best Shangtian will produce five or six quintals of rice a year.

But last year alone, 12 million loads of grain were sent from there, which made Yang Chao feel incredible.

Hurriedly asked Huang Yuan to investigate, and Huang Yuan reported that the reason why the Mekong River area could produce so much food was because many former captives picked up knives again, and they developed a new economic model.

This economic model made Yang Chao cry and laugh, and it turned out to be the Manchu coating system.

That's right, among those captives, there were more than 100 banner people, and it was really they who promoted the coating system first.

The Mekong region, there is really no opponent for them, the king of Cambodia himself is difficult to protect, the country is in chaos, and the Mekong region is a border area, so it has lost its management, allowing these captives to gallop across the country.

In the first two or three years, they were relatively honest, obediently developing planting sites and cultivating wasteland.

The balance was broken by a violent conflict, they opened up the wasteland, had food, kept warm, and thought about the daughter-in-law, and this area could meet Vietnamese villages dozens of miles to the north, so from time to time someone took something to ask for a daughter-in-law.

Once again, the Vietnamese border army intercepted a group of guys who went to buy a daughter-in-law, and as a result, killed a few people, which was a group of captives who had regained their spirit of soldierhood. Those who fled immediately beckoned the big guy to pick up the knife. A point-by-point greeting. In the end, tens of thousands of people were gathered and slaughtered on the border with Vietnam.

Vietnam is the period of the Northern and Southern Dynasties at this time, and the south is the territory of the Nguyen group, the Nguyen clan can't resist it, and the problem is that they don't dare to stop, although there are few people, but the behemoth of the Ming Dynasty is standing behind, so they defend the city. While sending people to Yunnan to negotiate with the emperor, it is strange that they did not look for Yang Chao.

It's just that the emperor couldn't control it at that time, and the Vietnamese blocked the attack of the soldiers, but the border city was looted all around, and property and women were the main targets of looting.

However, a few of the Eight Banners captives, they also captured some Vietnamese young people, of course, the purpose was to coat them and farm the land, and as a result, these Eight Banners prisoners quickly reclaimed more land and became rich.

This made the Han soldiers blushing, those ruffians under Zuo Liangyu. Gao Jie's soldiers and ruffians immediately followed suit. The ranks of the coatings were also looted.

However, the Nguyen clique stationed heavy troops in the border area, and it was not so easy to loot, but the Cambodians had no resistance, so they began to develop southward, robbing Cambodian villages, cities, and robbing their women and men.

In this way, the 300,000 soldiers and ruffians managed to control millions of strong laborers and reclaimed tens of millions of acres of land, most of which were directly robbed of mature fields cultivated by Cambodians and Vietnamese, and in addition to the planting skills they taught them intensive cultivation, they produced more than 20 million quintals of grain a year, which could not be consumed at all.

The price of grain sold from Saigon has fallen to two cents of silver, and it can be doubled to five cents of silver when it is shipped to Daming.

Although he despised the bad deeds of his compatriots in the Mekong River and the harm caused to Cambodian compatriots and Vietnamese compatriots, Yang Chao could only endure it in the face of tens of millions of tons of grain every year, which is why since the year before last, Yang Chao began to call for planting mulberry and silkworms.

Low inflation and high growth, such a good economy can support Yang Chao's continuous use of troops, and it cannot be said that there is no sacrifice of the Cambodian and Vietnamese people.

But in the face of the righteousness of attacking Guizhou and capturing Sun Kewang, Yang Chao chose to turn a blind eye, not only did not let Huang Yuan be suppressed, but transferred Huang Yuan to Taiwan as the prefect.

He was a governor in the Mekong River, and he was only a prefect in Taiwan, but Huang Yuan was still very happy, because the prefect meant that he was a third-rank official, and that governor had no rank, and he felt no different from the prisoners.

Not only did Huang Yuan leave, but he also took away a large number of Saigon's managers, leaving it in a management vacuum, and the group of ruffians on the Mekong River were left to fend for themselves and pioneered on their own.

The sky is high and the emperor is far away, and the great world is at their mercy, and I don't know what kind of system they can play.

Yang Chao didn't have time to care about the development of a colony, and his attention was on Guizhou at this time.

Zheng Yongwang and Sun Changfu, under the leadership of many men, approached Guizhou with an army of 300,000.

Guizhou is definitely not a good place to fight, the sky is not three feet high, and the ground is not three feet flat.

But the result was beyond Yang Chao's expectations.

The march went very well.

Hong Chengchou's 30,000 green battalion soldiers, plus the 30,000 Shaanxi border army led by Li Guohan, Wu Sangui's 10,000 Han soldiers, and Sun Kewang's 100,000 Western Army, the total strength reached 170,000.

But the result is that Yang Chao takes the lead everywhere.

Well, the land is not three feet flat, and the transportation is difficult, the people of Guizhou took the initiative to help as porters, carrying 300,000 people's military rations with the army, so that the 300,000 army did not have any worries about lack of food and weapons.

Why are the people of Guizhou so cooperative, is it because of their high consciousness? No, it's Sun Kewang who is too unpopular.

When Li Dingguo beat him back then, he was able to break him 200,000 with 40,000, it was not a fluke, but he was too unpopular with the people.

Sun Kewang implemented the same system in Guizhou, but the looting was more ruthless, and the tax here reached seventy percent, although the landlords were strongly suppressed, but one percent of the rent still had to be paid, and the burden on the people reached eighty percent.

Although there are few people and more land in Guizhou, the agricultural productivity of this era is there, and a strong laborer who works hard is just to support his family, and the family often has to work together, and the elderly, women and children have to work in order not to starve to death under Sun Kewang's system.

And Yang Chao is fighting against rebellion, the most pleasing thing is the slogan of tax exemption for ten years, for Yang Chao, the cost of collecting taxes from Guizhou is too high, and he was spared, just like when the agricultural tax was already lower than the cost in later generations, I exempted the agricultural tax with a wave of the pen, and gave the same as the subsidy, anyway, it is not cost-effective to collect taxes, so what to collect him.

But this trick is very beneficial to the people, the people of later generations are exempted from agricultural taxes, and they have to go out to work to support their families, there is no work in these years, and the eyes are bloodshot like staring at the one acre and three points of land, and it is not good to be tax-free, especially under Sun Ke's tax rate of seventy or eighty percent, the people of Guizhou are suddenly burning, your grandmother, Lao Tzu helped Yang Jiajun kill your turtle son.

So the powerful contribution, the rich, well, this really doesn't.

However, under the leadership of the porter party and the leading party, Yang Chao's soldiers advanced and retreated freely, and their intelligence was more accurate than Sun Kewang's, attacking everywhere, sneak attacking, and ambushing, as if they were in their own fields, but Sun Kewang found that he was constrained everywhere, and his eyes were black as soon as he left the city.

Sun Kewang is like this, not to mention the foreign soldiers led by Hong Chengchou, after going out of the city several times and the whole army was annihilated, Hong Chengchou strictly ordered the soldiers not to go out of the city to fight, even if there is an emergency, they must not be rescued, because it may be that the other party is sending reinforcements at the encirclement point, just like this, many men led people to occupy a city and a pool, and encroached on it step by step.

The good news was constantly sent to Yang Chao in this way, more than three or five days, less than one a day, today he occupied the city, and tomorrow he took the stronghold.

It took three months, step by step, and by the beginning of August, many men had surrounded Guiyang.

It's a pity that Yang Chao can't judge Sun Kewang, because it is said that when he broke the city, his family set himself on fire in the palace, and the body was found, but it was already unrecognizable, resulting in Yang Chao not being able to confirm Sun Kewang's life and death for a long time.

Before besieging Guiyang, Hong Chengchou had already left Guizhou, he fled back to Jiangbei to continue to sit in Jingxiang, and let Li Guohan and Wu Sangui join forces to retreat to Chishui, prevent Yang Chao from attacking Sichuan from here, and protect the slavery manor of his masters.

Yang Chao finally conquered Guizhou, and became one with Li Dingguo's territory, and he could send troops to Sichuan when he entered, and he could rely on the Yangtze River when he retreated, so he didn't have to worry about being attacked by the enemy.

From the seventeenth year of Chongnian (1644) to the seventh year of Longwu (1653) this year, a total of ten years, it finally reversed the strategic disadvantage, and then it was time for Yang Chao to counterattack, but where to hit next? (To be continued......)